In The Long Run [censorship] Will Create

Whether History Will Judge This War To Be Different Or Not We Cannot Say. But This We Can Say With Certainty: A Government And A Society That Silences Those Who Dissent Is One That Has Lost Its Way.

It Is Sobering To Recall That Though The Japanese Relocation Program, Carried Through At Such Incalculable Cost In Misery And Tragedy, Was Justified On The Ground That The Japanese Were Potentially Disloyal, The Record Does Not Disclose A Single Case Of Japanese Disloyalty Or Sabotage During The Whole War.

The Decision For Complete Religious Freedom And For Separation Of Church And State In The Eyes Of The Rest Of The World Was Perhaps The Most Important Decision Reached In The New World. Everywhere In The Western World Of The 18th Century, Church And State Were One; And Everywhere The State Maintained An Established Church And Tried To Force Conformity To Its Dogma.

We Should Not Be Surprised That The Founding Fathers Didn't Foresee Everything, When We See That The Current Fathers Hardly Ever Foresee Anything.

History, We Can Confidently Assert, Is Useful In The Sense That Art And Music, Poetry And Flowers, Religion And Philosophy Are Useful. Without It - As With These - Life Would Be Poorer And Meaner; Without It We Should Be Denied Some Of Those Intellectual And Moral Experiences Which Give Meaning And Richness To Life. Surely It Is No Accident That The Study Of History Has Been The Solace Of Many Of The Noblest Minds Of Every Generation.