It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

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

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

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

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

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.