The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

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

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

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

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

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.