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.

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

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

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.

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

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.