With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

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.

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

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

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.