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

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

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

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

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.