"It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."