[The phrase] right to privacy ... deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. |
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. |
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. |
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. |
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. |
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. |
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. |
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. |
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. |
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. |
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. |
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. |
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. |
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. |
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. |