If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.