The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

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

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

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

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.

The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most important decision reached in the New World. Everywhere in the western world of the 18th century, church and state were one; and everywhere the state maintained an established church and tried to force conformity to its dogma.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.