Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

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

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

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

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

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