People fear witches, and burn women.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.