[N]o law, written or unwritten, can be understood without a full knowledge of the facts out of which it arises, and to which it is to be applied. - Louis Brandeis

[O]nly through participation by the many in the responsibilities and determinations of business can Americans secure the moral and intellectual development which is essential to the maintenance of liberty.

At the foundation of our civil liberty lies the principle which denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world.