Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

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.

[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.

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.