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

For there is no constitutional right for any race to be preferred... If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the re…

A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest…

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

Penalties for opinion, or at least for its expression, still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at al…

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant…

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.