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

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.

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

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part