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

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.