Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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

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 . . .

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

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

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