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

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

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

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.