Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system; hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the law, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and dilig…

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy wort…

For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the cha…

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wr…

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.