The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

People fear witches, and burn women.

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

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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 most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.