The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.