The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.