Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

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.

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

Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.