Sunshine is the best disinfectant

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.

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

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

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