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

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority