“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two c...” — Warren E. Burger Quote

“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.”

“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.”

“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.”

“The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.”

“Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.”

“Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.”