We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.