Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

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 is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.