I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!