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

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.

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

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

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

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Fairness is what justice really is.