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

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

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

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!

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

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.