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

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

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

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

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.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.