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

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.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

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

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.