Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

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.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.