To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

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

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.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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