Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

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.

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

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

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