Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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.
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.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
When in doubt, do it.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
