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.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes