[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

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

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

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

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.