Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

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.

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.