[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.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

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

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

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

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

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