We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

- Stephen Breyer

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

- Stephen Breyer

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

- Stephen Breyer

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

- Stephen Breyer

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility suffi…

- Stephen Breyer

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

- Stephen Breyer

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes pl…

- Stephen Breyer

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

- Stephen Breyer

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

- Stephen Breyer