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

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

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.

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.

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

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

There can be no security where there is fear.