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

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

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

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.

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

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

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."