Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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