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

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

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.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.