It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
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.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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.