Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

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

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

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

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

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.