“Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.”

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion

It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter’s claim.

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition.

It must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life’s picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Government…may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another…

We have alternatives to violence.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.

Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.