It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

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

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.