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.

Our best people don't go into politics.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

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

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

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.