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.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

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