The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

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.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

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.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

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

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

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

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.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.