A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.