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.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
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.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
I used to oppose women’s suffrage and I’ve come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.
Behind every argument is somebody’s ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
No one can really pull you up very high – you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.