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.

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

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

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

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.