The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.