A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

The end is inherent in the means.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!