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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.