The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.