Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

Common sense often makes good law.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience and the conscience is the Constitution.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of mans other inventions.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience...that hissed yesterday may applaud today even for the same performance.

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.