In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

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.

As a person of judicial integrity who wrote acceptably well and contributed in more than one field. I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law.

Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, King Herod. You name it, it's all in there, ... On the other hand, some of the letters I received, without any question, are some of the most wonderful letters anyone could ever imagine.

If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Indian cases, which I like, but I've had a lot of them.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

The potentiality of human life.

[For the justices, Roe reflected earlier cases involving the right to privacy. That] right, ... broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

The flaw in the statute [is] that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.