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.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.