I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

Fairness is what justice really is.

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

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

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.

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

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