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

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.