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

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

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

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.