Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.