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

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.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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

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.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

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