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

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.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

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

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

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.