Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.