I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.