There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

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

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

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.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.