Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.