[I]t might seem that the law of life is . . . that man should produce food and raiment in order that he might produce yet other food and other raimen… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory . . . It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

I look at man through Malthus's glasses –as like flies– here swept away by pestilence – there multiplying unduly and paying for it. I think morals are not the last word but only a check for varying intensity upon force, which seems to me likely to remain the ultimate as far as I can look ahead.