Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

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

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

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?

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.