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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.