The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

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.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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 only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

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

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

We're all broken, but thats how the light shines through.

Even envy, wants to even the score.

Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

For me, skinny is just a style of jeans -- not a goal.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.