Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.