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.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

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

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

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

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.