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

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

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.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Men feared witches and burned women.

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

Democracy is moral before it is political.