I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

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.

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

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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.