Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

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.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.