As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

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

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

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.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.