The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

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

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

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."