It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.