Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. " I read "no law. . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.
There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred. ’ Why this privilege, this immunity?. . . A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.