In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

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

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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.