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

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.

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.

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

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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