The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.