The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

[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.

The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.