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

The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.

But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.