If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.