Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.