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

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.

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.

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.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me.

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself.

I feel like they’re talking about someone else we both know.

If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans.