Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

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

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.