1. “If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.”
2. “Democracy is moral before it is political.”
3. “Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.”
4. “If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
5. “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
6. “There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.”
7. “Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.”
8. “The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.”
9. “Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”
10. “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
11. “It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
12. “There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.”
13. “Repressions breeds hate: hate menaces stable government.”
14. “The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.”
15. “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared before they were done.”
