Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

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

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.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.