There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

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.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

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