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

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

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.

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

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