The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

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.

Fairness is what justice really is.

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.

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

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.