Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

People fear witches, and burn women.

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

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.