It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.