49 Quotes by David Souter

The challenger has an uphill fight. If he's lucky enough to win and gets to the general election, he's going to be broke.

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

The law schools are taking a position on First Amendment grounds, and that position is in interference with military recruiting, no question about it.