You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

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

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?

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

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.