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.

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

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.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.