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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Crime is contagious ... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force ...

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

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

The most important office ... that of private citizen.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

People fear witches, and burn women.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

If you would venture, let your mind be bold ... not reckless but bold.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

The most important political office is that of private citizen.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Men feared witches and burned women.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.