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

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

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

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.