If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. The duties of the office of private citizen cannot under a republican form of government be neglected without serious injury to the public.

In a democratic society the existence of large centers of private power is a dangerous to the continuing vitality of a free people.