Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.