Men In Authority Will Always Think That

A Free Society Cherishes Nonconformity. It Knows From The Non-conformist, From The Eccentric, Have Come Many Of The Great Ideas.

To Yearn For A Single, And Usually Simple, Explanation Of The Chaotic Materials Of The Past, To Search For A Single Thread In That Most Tangled Of All Skeins, Is A Sign Of Immaturity.

The Americans Who Framed Our Constitution Felt That Without Freedom Of Religion No Other Freedom Counted.

We Cannot Have A Society Half Slave And Half Free; Nor Can We Have Thought Half Slave And Half Free. If We Create An Atmosphere In Which Men Fear To Think Independently, Inquire Fearlessly, Express Themselves Freely, We Will In The End Create The Kind Of Society In Which Men No Longer Care To Think Independently Or To Inquire Fearlessly.

History Is A Jangle Of Accidents, Blunders, Surprises And Absurdities, And So Is Our Knowledge Of It, But If We Are To Report It At All We Must Impose Some Order Upon It.