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

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

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.

Men feared witches and burned women.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen