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

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.

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

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 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.

Every cell in the body has eyes to see and perceptions to feel.

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Authenticity soothes the soul.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

I don't do impressions.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.

I never had peace of mind.