While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indi…

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests…

A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system …

It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was mor…