The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.