Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.