There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.