Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.