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

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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.

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