Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

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

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

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

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 ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

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