Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. |
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. |
In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. |
In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. |
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. |
It is the position of the department, that all investigative reports are confidential documents of the executive department of the government to aid in the duty laid upon the president by the Constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and that congressional or public access to them would be in the public interest. |
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. |
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. |
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. |
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. |
The validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores. |
We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final. |
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. |
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. |