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

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

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

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

[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.