Life Is Not A Thing Of Knowing

The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Of Him Who, Near Two Thousand Years Ago, Taught Mankind That Lesson It Has Never Learned ... .

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally. As Nearly As We Can, We Must Put Ourselves In The Place Of Those Who Uttered The Words, And Try To Divine How They Would Have Dealt With The Unforeseen Situation; And, Although Their Words Are By Far The Most Decisive Evidence Of What They Would Have Done, They Are By No Means Final.

What To An Outsider Will Be No More Than The Vigorous Presentation Of A Conviction, To An Employee May Be The Manifestation Of A Determination Which It Is Not Safe To Thwart.

The Condition Of Our Survival In Any But The Meagerest Existence Is Our Willingness To Accommodate Ourselves To The Conflicting Interests Of Others, To Learn To Live In A Social World.

Heretics Have Been Hated From The Beginning Of Recorded Time; They Have Been Ostracized, Exiled, Tortured, Maimed, And Butchered; But It Has Generally Proved Impossible To Smother Them; And When It Has Not, The Society That Has Succeeded Has Always Declined.