Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

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

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

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.