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

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

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.

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.

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

Hard work is the engine that produces success. Hard work is success in realization.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.