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One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information.
The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.