The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.