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 political office is that of private citizen.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.