Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Truths are dangerous, " he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages, " said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

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If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.

Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!

Hope is not an illusion.

I don't need no extra hands in my pocket.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.