When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.