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

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

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

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

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

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.