The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
Arthur GoldbergLaw not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur GoldbergYou cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
Arthur GoldbergEqual Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.
Arthur GoldbergIt is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.
Arthur Goldberg