The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.