The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

Leadership isn't just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.