“Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.”

“Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.”

“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.”

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”

“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.”

“I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.”

“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.”

“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.”

“To some lawyers all facts are created equal.”

“The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.”