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 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.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

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

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.

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.