It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues. [Doing so] may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression.

[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.

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

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.