The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think. – William O. Douglas

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes