The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

Isn't it amazing how it's always the very people who insist other people be grateful for charity that get the most insulted when they're offered charity themselves? I've often noticed it.

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

We'll have more football later. Meanwhile, here are the highlights from the Scottish Cup final.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

Love lost can be found again.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!