It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Cae….

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respec….

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color..

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be..

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax..

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to….

Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare do….

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the….

We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricit….

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of R….

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money..

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power..

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evi….

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation..

Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantia….

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, co….

The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scur….

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille..

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or th….

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday..

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….