Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

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.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

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