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

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

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

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

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

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.