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

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

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.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

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

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.

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