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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.