“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.”

“Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”

“How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.”

“External vigilance is the price of liberty.”

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

“There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage”