I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.