A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

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.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

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

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.