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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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

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.

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

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.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.