Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.