The Real Sadness Of Fifty Is Not

Science Itself Is A Humanist In The Sense That It Doesn't Discriminate Between Human Beings, But It Is Also Morally Neutral. It Is No Better Or Worse Than The Ethos With And For Which It Is Used.

To Deaden Yourself Against Any Hurt Is To Deaden Yourself Also Against The Hurt Of Others.

America Shudders At Anything Alien, And When It Wants To Shut Its Mind Against Any Man's Ideas It Calls Him A Foreigner.

Every Mob, In Its Ignorance And Blindness And Bewilderment, Is A League Of Frightened Men That Seeks Reassurance In Collective Action.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?