(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.