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.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

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

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.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

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