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

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

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

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.

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