There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

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.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.