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.

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

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

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

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.

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

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.