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.

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.

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

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

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

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

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.