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.

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

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

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.