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

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

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

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

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

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

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.