The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

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

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

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

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.'

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.