Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

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.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

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