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.

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

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

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

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.'