The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.