A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

The greatest life is the joy of contentment.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?