The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

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.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.