One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

You can be very wild and still be very wise