Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey any…

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effor…

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed…

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural w…

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he free…

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unself…