Quotes by Justice Anthony Kennedy

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.