The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

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

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

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 Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

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

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.