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.

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

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

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

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.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

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.