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

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.