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

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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

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

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

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.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.