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

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.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

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

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.

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.