As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.