Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

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

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

People fear witches, and burn women.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.