The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

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.

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

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

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

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

The art of publicity is a black art.