There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
Harlan F. StoneThe [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan F. StoneThe 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...
Harlan F. StoneWords, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
Harlan F. Stone