Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

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