I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.

Don’t ever yell at me. I don’t yell, so talk to me in a regular voice.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I am human and I make mistakes.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.

In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.