We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

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.

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

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

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

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