A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

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

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

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.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

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

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