The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.