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.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

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

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