With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act ….

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

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….

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn..

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….

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

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities..

I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observatio….

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….

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of ….

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 common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess ….

It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the P….

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

If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have ac….

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

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions..

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

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority….

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….