Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.