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

A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

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

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.

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Water is the best of all things.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

On recovering my senses

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.