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.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

There can be no security where there is fear.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

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