Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

Our best people don't go into politics.

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

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

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.