When all think alike, then no one is thinking

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.