Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

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.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven