The Spirit Of Liberty Is

You Cannot Raise The Standard Against Oppression, Or Leap Into The Breach To Relieve Injustice, And Still Keep An Open Mind To Every Disconcerting Fact, Or An Open Ear To The Cold Voice Of Doubt. I Am Satisfied That A Scholar Who Tries To Combine These Parts Sells His Birthright For A Mess Of Pottage; That, When The Final Count Is Made, It Will Be Found That The Impairment Of His Powers Far Outweighs Any Possible Contribution To The Causes He Has Espoused.

The Hand That Rules The Press, The Radio, The Screen And The Far-spread Magazine, Rules The Country.

All Discussion, All Debate, All Dissidence Tends To Question And In Consequence, To Upset Existing Convictions; That Is Precisely Its Purpose And Its Justification.

How Long Shall We Blunder Along Without The Aid Of Unpartisan And Authoritative Scientific Assistance In The Administration Of Justice, No One Knows; But All Fair Persons Not Conventionalized By Provincial Legal Habits Of Mind Ought, I Should Think, Unite To Effect Some Change.

For, When All Is Said, As My Friend George Rublee Likes To Put It, The Only Success Is To Be A Success As A Person; And It Is Still Not Too Late For That.