There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part