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

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

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

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.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

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

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