The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.