Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.