He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall. The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrended at the end of one or even one hundred defeats.
Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. On Liberty All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force.