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

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

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

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

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.

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.