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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.

The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.

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

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

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

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

The matter does not appear to appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future
your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

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