The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.