William Rehnquist quotes

" Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. " # Children # Disease # Men and Women

" This result […] will daily stand as a veritable sword of Damocles over every succeeding president and his advisers. " # Language # President # Success

" The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality. " # Courage # Congress # Politicians and Politics

" No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. 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. " # Churches # Opinions # History and Historians