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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

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

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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