One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

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 very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.

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