“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."[Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]”

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If thegovernment becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; itinvites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

“If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.”

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”