Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journali….

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide toleran….

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that i….

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate..

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent..

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great..

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire..

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipa….

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious t….