The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

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.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

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