Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.