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

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

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

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 there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

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.