When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.