You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place