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

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

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.

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

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

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.