History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

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

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

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

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