We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

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

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

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

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.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.