Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.