I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

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

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

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

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

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.

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