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

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

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.