Democracy is moral before it is political.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.