Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.