We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

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.

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

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.