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Top 15 Byron White Quotes (2025 Update)

Byron White Quote: “Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.”

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

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Byron White Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Byron White Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Byron White Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.”

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

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Byron White Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Byron White Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.”

8. “The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.”

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.”

9. “The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.”

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Byron White Quote: “The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.”

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

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “We’re the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.”

11. “We’re the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.”

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Byron White Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.”

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

— Byron White

Byron White Quote: “To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected 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.”

15. “To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected 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.”

— Byron White

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