The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.

Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity and a citizen of California by …

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.