“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

“Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.”

“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”

“Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.”

“Love should never mean having to live in fear.”

“The power of love is that it sees all people.”

“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.”

“When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.”

“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.”

“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

“We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.”

“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open ...”

“Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of pr...”