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

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

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

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.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.