Nothing could bring two right-wing groups together quite like the common belief that no person should ever experience freedom of thought.

We are too afraid of some ephemeral God to vote in our own self interest

But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbining the human race.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of the opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction