The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.