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.

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

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.

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

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

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