I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
