There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

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

[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.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

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