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

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.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.