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.

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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.