We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

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

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

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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

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.