We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

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.

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.