Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.