The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.