Saints are usually killed by their own people.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The major cause of problems are solutions