A license cannot be be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing |
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. |
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one |
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy |
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate |
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. |
Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority |
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling |
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. |
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. |
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. |
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep |
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep |
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep |
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. |