If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both

There are no shortcuts in evolution

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live

Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy