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

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

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.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

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 language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.