In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.