Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.