The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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.

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.