The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

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

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

The art of publicity is a black art.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

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.