“We have alternatives to violence.”

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…

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

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

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.