We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.