The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.