In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

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.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

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

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

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!