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.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

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

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

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.