A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.