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.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

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

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

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.