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.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

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.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

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.