The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly

The inventive step requirement makes a lawyer out of an inventor

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.