Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.