Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

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

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

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.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.