When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.