As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God