Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

We granted certiorari, and in this Court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his mi…