I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for …

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

Henceforth there are to be no fixed or inviolable principles of law at all-only an endlessly changing legal response to the fashionable causes of the moment.