Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

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

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.