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

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

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

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

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