If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

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

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

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

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.

People fear witches, and burn women.

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