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.

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

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

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

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

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.