We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theolog….

Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I thin….

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 on….

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..

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned pris….

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored - indeed, I have struggled - al….

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate….

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

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 t….

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not the….

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas..

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

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people….

The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in matters of beli….

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existenc….

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not t….

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associati….

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 ….

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its i….