Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

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.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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.

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