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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is one thing God’s love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.