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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Common sense often makes good law.
Common sense often makes a good law.
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
I would rather create a precedent than find one.
The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.
A reporter is no better than his source of information.
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.