The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.