As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.