It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.