There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

It’s okay to aspire to a better life, but don’t let it stop you fromenjoying the life you already have.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.