“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?”

“Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.”

“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.”

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

“Freedom includes the right to go to hell, and the right to tell others to do the same.”