I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become to….

Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect condu….

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise..

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it.….

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself..

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens..

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lord….

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final..

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election..

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and in….

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis..

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which wi….

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish..

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unfl….

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so..

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes..

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges..

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all tho….

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores..

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty an….

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the un….