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

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

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

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

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.

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.

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