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

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

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.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

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