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

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

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

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.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.