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.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.