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

People fear witches, and burn women.

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.

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

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

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.