“Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people …” — William J. Brennan, Jr.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.