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

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 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.

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

Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”The Barn

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.