Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

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

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.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.