It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

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.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

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

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.