The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.