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

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

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

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

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.

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...

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.