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

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

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

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

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

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

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

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

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

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

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

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