I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

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

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

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.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.