...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.