Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.