History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

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

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

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.

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.