Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.