Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

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

Common sense often makes a good law.

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.