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..

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we..

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it..

There is no such thing as a false idea..

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

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

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

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 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..

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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….