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

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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.