My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between th….

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in g….

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it..

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, ….

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots..

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull..

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation..

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them..

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ..

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar..

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for..

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom..

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on..

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once..

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together..

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his ch….

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking..

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of mothe….

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public..

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass..

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of A….