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.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

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

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.