Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Bruises from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

The first loss is the best loss.

Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.