The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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.

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.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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

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

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.