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Quotes by Judge
"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."
51
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
51
"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
51
"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."
51
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
51
"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."
51
"In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions."
51
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
50
"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
50
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
50
"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
50
"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
50
"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
50
"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
May,
50
"Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses."
50
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
50
"But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
50
"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."
50
"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
50
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
50
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
50
"The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence."
50
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
50
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
50
"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
50
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
50
"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."
50
"I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life."
49
"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
49
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