To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

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

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.