How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks - who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty - the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak? Is there any limitation beyond that?

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Humanity is the grand religion, and no God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if tha…

He who puts chains upon the body of another shackles his own soul.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without f…