Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

You have to stick to your goals of progress.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.