Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

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.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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.

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

I made my million before I was 19!

Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.