Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

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?

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

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.

God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.