No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution - of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.