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

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

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

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

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

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.