The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.