Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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.

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.

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.