Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.