"No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the st…"

"In my conception of it, the primary role of the Court is to decide cases. From the decision of cases, of course, some…"

"History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional b…"

"The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the da…"

"No matter what coercive powers of enforcement governments may assert, the peoples in country after country in all age…"

"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licens…"

"The entire legal profession - lawyers, judges, law teachers - has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the co…"

"If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has be…"

"Individual rights have been recognized by our jurisprudence only after long and costly struggles. They should not be …"

"Common sense and justice dictate that a citizen accused of a crime should have the fullest hearing possible, plus the…"