This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

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.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.