I Rise Early Because No Day Is

The Right Most Valued By All Civilized Men Is The Right To Be Left Alone.

The Makers Of Our Constitution . . . Conferred, As Against The Government, The Right To Be Let Alone - The Most Comprehensive Of Rights And The Right Most Valued By Civilized Men.

Subtler And More Far-reaching Means Of Invading Privacy Have Become Available To The Government. Discovery And Invention Have Made It Possible For The Government, By Means Far More Effective Than Stretching Upon The Rack, To Obtain Disclosure In Court Of What Is Whispered In The Closet.

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.

We Gain Nothing By Trading The Tyranny Of Capital For The Tyranny Of Labor.