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.

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

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

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen