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

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."

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.

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.