We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.