There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.