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 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.

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.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.