[N]o people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . . - Louis Brandeis

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 prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence to be borne with resignation.

When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.