A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.