Clergyman's

here should be absolute freedom of expression without any kind of restraint or limitation. This position is generally defended by the uncritical assertion that every person has the right to express his views or judgment on any subject, and the rather obvious limitations are usually demonstrated by irrelevant examples, such as denying a person the right to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre when there is no fire.
- Eugene McCarthy

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
- Eugene McCarthy

Now it is certain.
There is no magic stone.
No secret to be found.
One must go
With the mind's winnowed learning.
- Eugene McCarthy

The glove has been thrown to the ground,
The last choice of weapons made.
A book for one thought.
A poem for one line.
A line for one word.
- Eugene McCarthy

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
- Eugene McCarthy

I have left Act I, for involution
And Act II. There, mired in complexity
I cannot write Act III.
- Eugene McCarthy

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
- Eugene McCarthy

The real basis of freedom of speech and of expression is not, however, the right of a person to say what he thinks or what he wishes to say but the right and need of all persons to learn the truth. The only practical approach to this end is freedom of expression.
- Eugene McCarthy