Citizenship is the right to have rights.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

I obey my own commands about as often as others do.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.