Since We Are Men, We Will Play

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 Had Rather Take My Chance That Some Traitors Will Escape Detection Than Spread Abroad A Spirit Of General Suspicion And Distrust, Which Accepts Rumor And Gossip In Place Of Undismayed And Unintimidated Inquiry.

Anyone May Arrange His Affairs So That His Taxes Shall Be As Low As Possible; He Is Not Bound To Choose That Pattern Which Best Pays The Treasury. There Is Not Even A Patriotic Duty To Increase One's Taxes. Over And Over Again The Courts Have Said That There Is Nothing Sinister In So Arranging Affairs As To Keep Taxes As Low As Possible. Everyone Does It, Rich And Poor Alike And All Do Right, For Nobody Owes Any Public Duty To Pay More Than The Law Demands.

The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Of Him Who, Near Two Thousand Years Ago, Taught Mankind That Lesson It Has Never Learned ... .

That Community Is Already In The Process Of Dissolution Where Each Man Begins To Eye His Neighbor As A Possible Enemy, Where Non-conformity With The Accepted Creed, Political As Well As Religious, Is A Mark Of Disaffection; Where Denunciation, Without Specification Or Backing, Takes The Place Of Evidence; Where Orthodoxy Chokes Freedom Of Dissent; Where Faith In The Eventual Supremacy Of Reason Has Become So Timid That We Dare Not Enter Our Convictions In The Open Lists, To Win Or Lose.