Quotes on Supreme Court Justice

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.