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

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

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

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.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.