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

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

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.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.