Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

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

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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

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

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

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.