Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man....

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.