73 Quotes by Anthony Kennedy

You have this big windup, but what's the answer to the question?

The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

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 who was once their own.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.