It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.