There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

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.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

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

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.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.