“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic, but interferes with no rights or interest of others is not… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image