There are no shortcuts in evolution.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.