The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.