No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen..

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility..

There can be no security where there is fear..

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed..

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointme….

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another oc….

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind..

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too e….

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic societ….

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late..

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes..

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and ….

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards..

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error whic….

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power..

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else..

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out o….

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it..

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals..

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement..

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people..