Rehnquist William Quotes

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. ~ William Rehnquist

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions. ~ William Rehnquist

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. ~ William Rehnquist

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum. ~ William Rehnquist

A father's interest in having a child
perhaps his only child
may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child. ~ William Rehnquist

All of these factors are subsumed to a greater or lesser extent by observing that the Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity. The well-known checks and balances provided by the framers of the Constitution have supplied the necessary centrifugal force to make the Court independent of Congress and the president. The ~ William H. Rehnquist

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67. ~ William Rehnquist

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. ~ William Rehnquist

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." ~ William Rehnquist

I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use. ~ William Golding

What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ~ William Shakespeare

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. ~ William James

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany. ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two! ~ William Shakespeare

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ~ William Wordsworth

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths. ~ William Boyd

Inigo was in despair.
Hard to find on the map (this was after maps) not because cartographers didn't know of its existence, but because when they visited to measure its precise dimensions, they became so depressed they began to drink and question everything, most notably why anyone would want to be something as stupid as a cartographer. It required constant travel, no one ever knew your name, and, most of all, why bother? There grew up, then, a gentleman's agreement among mapmakers of the period to keep the place as secret as possible, lest tourists flock there and die. (Should you insist on paying a visit, it's closer to the Baltic States than most places.) ~ William Goldman

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders. ~ George William Norris

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. ~ William Graham Sumner

O! never say that I was false of heart, ~ William Shakespeare

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ~ William Ellery Channing

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. ~ William Osler

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. ~ William Henry Harrison

A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. ~ William John Macquorn Rankine

From earliest times men wholly ignorant of the Bible have concluded on the basis of the design in the universe that God must exist. ~ William Lane Craig

The only realism in art is of the imagination. ~ William Carlos Williams

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! ~ William Shakespeare

All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies. ~ William Macneile Dixon

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. ~ William Hague

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad. ~ William Missouri Downs

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than THE BABADOOK.It will scare the hell out of you as it did me. ~ William Friedkin

And every day past is just another step for fools on the way to their deaths. ~ William Shakespeare

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. ~ William Bourke Cockran

This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone. ~ William E. Kennard

... ... but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance ~ C. William Beebe

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ~ William Shakespeare

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper. ~ William E. Rees

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures. ~ William Shakespeare

Even a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while ~ William F. Shumaker

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. ~ William H. Gates, Sr.

But love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offense,
Crying, 'That's good that's gone. ~ William Shakespeare