Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.