The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

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

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.

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

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.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

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.