The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.

You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.