Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

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.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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

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