The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.