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

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

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

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.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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