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

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.

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.

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

This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation, " [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

It's never crowded when you walk on your own path.

I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.

And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.

My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.