[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.

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.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

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

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

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