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

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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