While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.
Byron WhiteRespondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.
Byron WhiteThe Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.
Byron WhiteWhen the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.
Byron White