Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

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.

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

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.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

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.