Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.