All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

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

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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