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

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

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

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

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