The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

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.

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.