The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.