Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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.

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

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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

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.