Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

If a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.