We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. - William O. Douglas

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

When the university does not sit apart, critical of industry, the Pentagon, and government, there is no fermentative force at work in our society. The university becomes a collection of technicians in a service station, trying to turn out better technocrats for the technological society. Then all voices become a chorus supporting the status quo; there is no challenger from the opposition warning of dangers to come.

The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments could mean only one thing — one person, one vote.