ThursdayMay 21, 2026
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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.
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.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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.
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.
I rise early because no day is long enough for a days work.
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.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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.
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
If you would venture, let your mind be bold ... not reckless but bold.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Low wages are not cheap wages.
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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