When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

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

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

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