Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.