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

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

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

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

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.

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant