If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.