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.

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

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

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

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

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

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.