The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.