"Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks."
"Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve."
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"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism."
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses..."
"A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe."
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
"Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul."