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.

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

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

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

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

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 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.