Who said “How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do…”?

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.”

“A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”

“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”