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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.