A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Fairness is what justice really is.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Power to the peaceful!

I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

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I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.