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.

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

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

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

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.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.