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.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.