The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The sec….

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or ….

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restric….

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals..

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has w….

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope..

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental po….

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation..

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day..

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest..

But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the co….

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted….

The Constitution is what the judges say it is..

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets..

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law..

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his p….

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty an….

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known..

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free..

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully..