Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

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

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

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

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

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.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.