If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Our best people don't go into politics.

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.