"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

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"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

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"It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters."

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"It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp."

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"Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin."

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"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."

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"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion."

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"I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore."

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"Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all."

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"There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise."

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