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.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.