Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

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.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.