"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." --Whittaker Chambers

"The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands." --Justice Hugo Black

"Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom." --John Quincy Adams

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." --Thomas Szasz

"Academic freedom is not only meant to protect professors; it is also supposed to ensure students' right to learn without being molested. When instructors use their classrooms to indoctrinate and propagandize, they cheat those students and betray the academic mission they are entrusted with. That should be intolerable to honest men and women of every stripe -- liberals and conservatives alike." --Jeff Jacoby

"If you don't like living in a divided country, all you have to do is get yourself appointed to the university faculty somewhere and you will be able to experience the joys of living in a one-party state." --James Taranto