Byron White Quotes

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

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

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

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

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

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

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

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

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

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

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.