Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

Common sense often makes a good law.

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

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

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