I would rather create a precedent than find one.

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

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.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

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

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.