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.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

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

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

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

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.

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.