I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.