Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

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.

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.

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.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.

I hate that question, “Are you okay?” It’s like asking someone if they think you look fat. You’re almost guaranteed to get a lie.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Life yields only to the conqueror.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.