The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.