There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

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.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

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 themselves of great power.

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

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.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

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 totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

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

Snob corrupted.

There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.