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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.