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.

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.

Arguments seem futile to me, for behind every argument I have ever heard lies the astounding ignorance of someone.

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 evilminded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, wellmeaning but without understanding.

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.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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 most important office ... that of a private citizen.

The real fight today is against inhuman, relentless exercise of capitalistic power. The present struggle in which we are engaged is for social and industrial justice.

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