There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.