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.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

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.