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

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

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

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

[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.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.