We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Men feared witches and burned women.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.