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

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

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.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

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.

Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.