Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.