I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

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.

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.

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.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.