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

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

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

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.