[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It s….

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause ….

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along..

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get..

[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Mos….

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judic….

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one..

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade yo….

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and….

The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Ho….

The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be p….

The wise do not investigate such silliness..

More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the….

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable..

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment..

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom..

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the f….

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield ….

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all withi….