The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul...

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst when dealing with yourself.