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.

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

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

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

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

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

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