I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.