Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory . . . It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.