Seldom, If Ever, Does Wisdom

We Prate Of Freedom; We Are In Deadly Fear Of Life, As Much Of Our Own American Scene Betrays.

Political Agitation, By The Passions It Arouses Or The Convictions It Engenders, May In Fact Stimulate Men To The Violation Of The Law. Detestation Of Existing Policies Is Easily Transformed Into Forcible Resistance Of The Authority Which Puts Them In Execution, And It Would Be Folly To Disregard The Causal Relation Between The Two. Yet To Assimilate Agitation, Legitimate As Such, With Direct Incitement To Violent Resistance, Is To Disregard The Tolerance Of All Methods Of Political Agitation Which In Normal Times Is A Safeguard Of Free Government.

It Is The Daily; It Is The Small; It Is The Cumulative Injuries Of Little People That We Are Here To Protect....if We Are Able To Keep Our Democracy, There Must Be Once Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice.

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.

A Society In Which Men Recognize No Check Upon Their Freedom Soon Becomes A Society Where Freedom Is The Possession Of Only A Savage Few.