Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.