America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Men feared witches and burned women.

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