Attorney General John Ashcroft Has Earned Himself

The Fact That You Are Here Tonight Gathered Together With Us Testifies To The Fact You Understand The Need For This Organization And The Need For Redoubling Our Efforts In This Organization To Try To Assure That Democracy As Represented By The United States Must Depend Upon A Total Freedom Of Religion, Which Is Written Into Our Constitution, Of Course, And The Mere Suggestion That Anyone Could Maintain That One's Patriotism, One's Devotion To One's Country Can Be Judged By One's Religion Is So Vile, So Vile That We Have To Take To The Streets Indeed And To Put It Aside.

Television [is] A High-impact Medium. It Does Some Things No Other Force Can Do-transmitting Electronic Pictures Through The Air. Still, As An Explored, Comprehensive Medium, It Is Not A Substitute For Print.

There Is No Such Thing As A Little Freedom. Either You Are All Free, Or You Are Not Free.

For How Many Thousands Of Years Now Have We Humans Been What We Insist On Calling "civilized?" And Yet, In Total Contradiction, We Also Persist In The Savage Belief That We Must Occasionally, At Least, Settle Our Arguments By Killing One Another.

I'm A Romanticist In Many Ways. I Never Get Behind The Wheel Of My Boat And Dropping The Anchor Without Saying To Myself, Secretly Giving My Orders To The Crew "all Right, Lift The Anchor, We're On Our Way To South Hampton. We're Gonna Beat Them There With This Load Of Tea!"