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.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

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

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

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