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

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.