It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

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

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

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

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 . . .

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

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