“There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.”

Men may be born free

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

That’s what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy

Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard