The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

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.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

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

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.