Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.