The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

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

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.