“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”
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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”
“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.”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”
“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 logic of words should yield to the logic of realities”
“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”
“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”
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen”
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done”
“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself”
“The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold”
“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”
“There are no shortcuts in evolution”
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence”
“Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement”
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty”