History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us.

The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn’t going to stop until she’d killed them all.

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

We can call it Isratine.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.