As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. Felix Frankfurter
This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added. Robert H. Jackson
We granted certiorari, and in this Court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. Robert H. Jackson
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified. William O. Douglas
The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court. Byron White