Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part