Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Fairness is what justice really is.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.