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.

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

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

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

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.