We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.