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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.
Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
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.
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.
But I wound like people to think I was an honest judge and a good judge. And I always tried the reach the best result in every case.
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
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.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.