We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.