[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

The map is more interesting than the territory.

Nobody’s life is perfect.Rather than wishingfor things you don’t have, make the most of thethings you do have.

Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there.

Live a life you don't need to take a vacation from

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do.

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.