Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.