If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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

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.