The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Fairness is what justice really is.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

stay too closeand she will leave.stay too farand she will leave.distance is too delicate a thing.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

There is nothing fulfilling than being in your own company ~

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: the moment not doing it became more difficult and unbearable than just doing it.

When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure