Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.