If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.