The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

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

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

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

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

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.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.