Skip to content

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.

— William Rehnquist

Another quote →

More quotes by William Rehnquist

Our judges will not continue to represent the diverse face of America if only the well-to-do or the mediocre are willing to become judges.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

The First Amendment recognizes no such thing as a "false" idea.

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

To the extent that libraries wish to offer unfiltered access, they are free to do so without federal assistance.

All William Rehnquist quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: William Rehnquist (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.