The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

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

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.

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

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

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

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.