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..

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 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..

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

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

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

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….

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….

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty..

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….

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….

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or sch….

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

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….

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 privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we se….

Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amen….

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

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

If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not….