We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of read more

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the read more

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law read more

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive
to the least powerful in our society.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive
to the least powerful in our society.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.