Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.