I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

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.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.