No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed.… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
