War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.