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.

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.

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.

Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.

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

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