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.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

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

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

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