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

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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.

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.