The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.