I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.