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.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

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.

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

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

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

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.

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

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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.