Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.