The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

The art of publicity is a black art.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

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

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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.