Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.