The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

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.

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

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

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.