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 Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

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

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?

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

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

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.