The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.
From David Souter
The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.
History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.
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