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

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.

It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

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

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .