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

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

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

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.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

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