Byron White

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable…

— Byron White

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under…

— Byron White

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable…

— Byron White

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse…

— Byron White

The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the…

— Byron White

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do…

— Byron White

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot…

— Byron White

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the…

— Byron White

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

— Byron White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the…

— Byron White

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

— Byron White

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,…

— Byron White

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

— Byron White

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death…

— Byron White

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to…

— Byron White

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to…

— Byron White