Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

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.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

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.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

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.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

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.

[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.

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.