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

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

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.

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.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

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.