The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

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

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

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.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.