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

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

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

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.