The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.

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 tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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.

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