Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?