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

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

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

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey 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.

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.