Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.