The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a bas….

You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We ….

There is no such thing as a false idea..

There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationaliz….

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity..

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both ….

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary..

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infrin….

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the ….

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

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

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon d….

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because s….

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

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

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantl….

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 ord….

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing ….

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us..

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its gre….

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics..