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

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

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

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

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.

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.