If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.