Henry S. Commager said that the US Constitution was the best chance for political freedom, calling it a 'perfect blueprint.'

'The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble …

'The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.'

'Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.'

We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the le…