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

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.