All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
