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 greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.