When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

- Byron White

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

- Byron White

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot…

- Byron White

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

- Byron White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

- Byron White

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impart…

- Byron White

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots …

- Byron White

The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the l…

- Byron White

It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to othe…

- Byron White