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

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

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

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

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.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.