“If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.”
“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.”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ”
“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)]”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”