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.

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.

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.

People fear witches, and burn women.

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

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

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.