If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.May the fire of love grow in our hearts.

Accept yourself in a way you are created

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.