Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.