Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
Life is not a thing of knowing only – nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.
For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.
The art of publicity is a black art.