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.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.