To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.