It Is A Wise Man Who Said

In The First Place, Lawyers Better Remember They Are Human Beings, And A Human Being Who Hasn't His Periods Of Doubts And Distresses And Disappointments Must Be A Cabbage, Not A Human Being. That Is Number One.

The State Insists That, By Thus Quarantining The General Reading Public Against Books Not Too Rugged For Grown Men And Women In Order To Shield Juvenile Innocence, It Is Exercising Its Power To Promote The General Welfare. Surely This Is To Burn The House To Roast The Pig...the Incidence Of This Enactment Is To Reduce The Adult Population Of Michigan To Reading Only What Is Fit For Children.

There Is Torture Of Mind As Well As Body; The Will Is As Much Affected By Fear As By Force. And There Comes A Point Where This Court Should Not Be Ignorant As Judges Of What We Know As Men.

Ultimately There Can Be No Freedom For Self Unless It Is Vouchsafed For Others; There Can Be No Security Where There Is Fear, And A Democratic Society Presupposes Confidence And Candor In The Relations Of Men With One Another And Eager Collaboration For The Larger Ends Of Life Instead Of The Pursuit Of Petty, Selfish Or Vainglorious Aims.

Freedom Of Expression Is The Well-spring Of Our Civilization... The History Of Civilization Is In Considerable Measure The Displacement Of Error Which Once Held Sway As Official Truth By Beliefs Which In Turn Have Yielded To Other Truths. Therefore The Liberty Of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge.