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

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.

They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I am myself my own commander.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

I read. It affects every decision that I make.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page

I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.