Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

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.

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

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.