Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience 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.

He who risks nothing has nothing.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.