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

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

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

Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.

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.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

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