The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

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

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.