We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

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

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

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