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

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.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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

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.

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