Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Without free speech no search for truth is possible. . . no discovery of truth is useful.
This bank-note world.
I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come now to tell you this: You are creating God.
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.