Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.