Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.