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?

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

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

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

[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.

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

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.