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, 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 "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.

What good are wings without the courage to fly?

You must build your tomorrow today through visions

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Few things move as quietly as the future.

That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them