"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

"Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."

"Love of country is like love of woman—he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

"Liberty is always unfinished business."

"People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and ‘perks.’ We don’t always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they’re needed, there’s not much else to do except let them do the work."

"We really are fifteen different countries and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham—both are certain they are the real American."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

"Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole."

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."