In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

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

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

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 trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

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!

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

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

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

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 impose some order upon it.

Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.

Help for the Haunted

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.

Thus shall you go to the stars.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.