There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

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

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.