No Court Can Make Time Stand Still.

It Is Easy To Make Light Of Insistence On Scrupulous Regard For The Safeguards Of Civil Liberties When Invoked On Behalf Of The Unworthy. It Is Too Easy. History Bears Testimony That By Such Disregard Are The Rights Of Liberty Extinguished, Heedlessly At First, Then Stealthily, And Brazenly In The End.

It Would Be A Stultification Of The Responsibility Which The Course Of Constitutional History Has Cast Upon This Court To Hold That In Order To Convict A Man The Police Cannot Extract By Force What Is In His Mind, But Can Extract What Is In His Stomach.

Government Is Itself An Art, One Of The Subtlest Of The Arts. It Is Neither Business, Nor Technology, Nor Applied Science. It Is The Art Of Making Men Live Together In Peace And With Reasonable Happiness.

No Judge Writes On A Wholly Clean Slate.

To Some Lawyers, All Facts Are Created Equal.