The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

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

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

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

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

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.