Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find cr….

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas..

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman..

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought..

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything..

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist..

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover tru….

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of al….

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - un….

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to ….

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought..

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause….

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impos….

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified ….

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality..

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence ….

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted..

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change..

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation..