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

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

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

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

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.

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.