It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

There can be no security where there is fear.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

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