Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. |
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. |
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. |
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. |
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. |
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. |
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. |
The right to be alone / the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. |
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. |
There are no shortcuts in evolution. |
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. |
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. |
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. |
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. |
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. |