The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

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

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.

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

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.