As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

When you're attuned to Spirit, there is nothing in the outer world that matters.

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.