The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

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.

If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

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

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

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.