Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

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.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.