The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.