We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

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

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.