The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

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

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

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

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.