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.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

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.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

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

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.