A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.