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

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

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions