Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Fairness is what justice really is.

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.