Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

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.

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

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.