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

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.

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

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

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?

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.

No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

Whether it's a potato or a nut, it's a foodage!

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.