I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

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

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

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.