We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

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.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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