There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

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

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.