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

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

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

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

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.