The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

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

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

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.

We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But 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 price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.