If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

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.