Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

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

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

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .