I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.