It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

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

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

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

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.