Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

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.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.